On Thu, 1 Oct 2020 17:19:47 -0400, Joseph Reichman wrote: >I don’t know if I would find the space >I work for the IRS have to get ready filing season 2021 >Looking for data in filing season 2020 > >Huge amounts of DASD > Lizette's pseudocode appears to show that she means the *names* of the datasets, not their content. They'd be opened one-by-one and processed in place.
My pseudocode vaguely resembled Rexx; any language would do. >> On Oct 1, 2020, at 5:16 PM, Lizette Koehler wrote: >> >> Why not put all datasets in a sequential file. Which is then used as input >> to your process >> >> Then your process could do >> >> Read input list of files >> Do Loop until Input all read >> Open file >> Search file >> If match - do Something >> Close file >> End loop >> >> Keep going through as many datasets that are in your input file. Or is this >> something you are doing already? >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Joseph Reichman >> Sent: Thursday, October 1, 2020 1:59 PM >> >> You may be right >> Was doing it in assembler >> Because that’s the language used >> >> But whatever works >> >> PS my code was proceeded by a call IGGCSI00 to get the dataset names >> >>>> On Oct 1, 2020, at 4:54 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote >>> >>> Does a concatenation gain you anything compared to the simple: >>> >>> DO FOR 4471 >>> ALLOCATE >>> OPEN >>> look for data >>> CLOSE >>> FREE >>> END -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
